Non-stopper
Did another non-stop swim today. Average pace of 2:09. Not bad. I’m struggling somewhat with keeping my form after a few laps. My breathing is ok, but my legs tend to dip a little deeper and this creates a lot of unwanted drag.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 05/13/2009
- Time: 11:00:00
- Total Time: 00:25:59.00
- Calories: 273
- Distance: 1,200 m
- Average Pace: 2:09.96/100m
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First sub 2 min /100m swim
w000t!! I did my first sub 2 min / 100m swim. I averaged 1:57.7 / 100m. Ok i did intervals, but it was still my fastest swim yet. It’s encouraging to see my speed increasing as time goes on.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 05/08/2009
- Time: 17:00:00
- Total Time: 00:19:37.00
- Calories: 206
- Distance: 1,000 m
- Average Pace: 1:57.65/100m
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Fighting the weak mind
I go swimming in an open air pool and it’s quite cold out, so it’s real hard to get motivated to go swimming. With it being winter, the sun was also already down by the time I walked out of the office. My mind was going like crazy trying to think of reasons not to go out, but I managed to get over it and had a pretty good swim. The water temperature was actually very comfortable, so hopefully next time those pansy thoughts won’t plague me that much.
I’ve been doing more interval training sessions lately, so I decided to just do a full 1000m without stopping. Just to see if I was still able to swim that far without stopping and also to build a bit of stamina. Things went great and I only had to stop a few times to get back in sync with the other people using the pool. One lap I went out too hard and I stopped for 30seconds, but the rest was fine.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 05/06/2009
- Time: 18:00:00
- Total Time: 00:21:44.00
- Calories: 228
- Distance: 1,000 m
- Average Pace: 2:10.43/100m
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Power swim
Had a great swim today. Working on power and speed in the water. Almost broke the 2:00/100m barrier. Knee still hurts. Hope swimming doesn’t make it worse too.
2×200m
4×100m
4×50m
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 04/28/2009
- Time: 17:00:00
- Total Time: 00:20:13.00
- Calories: 212
- Distance: 1,000 m
- Average Pace: 2:01.21/100m
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Swimming coming along nicely
Other than my Xterra and tri, this has been my longest swim of the year. Looking back on training times, it feels great to see them gradually drop from 3min / 100m to 2:05-2:10 min. The pros do around 1:10-1:20, so there still a lot of room for improvement. I’d be happy with a solid 2:00 min pace over 2km.
Winter is hurtling in at a rapid pace and the mind is already cunningly trying to wiggle its way out of swimming. Luckily the pool is semi-heated, so it is still possible to swim in acceptable water temperatures. But I hope to continue swimming and improving.
I’m still set on doing a half-ironman in Jan, so I better keep it up. Luckily that’s only a 1,800m swim. The running is my biggest issue at this stage. But my knee rehab is going quite well.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 04/23/2009
- Time: 18:00:00
- Total Time: 00:32:20.00
- Calories: 339
- Distance: 1,500 m
- Average Pace: 2:09.5/100m
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Short swim
Had to force myself to get to the pool. Don’t know what’s up, but I’m really feeling out of it.
I have an adventure race on Saturday. Actually quite looking forward to that, so things are looking up.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 04/16/2009
- Time: 15:00:00
- Total Time: 00:10:31.00
- Calories: 110
- Distance: 500 m
- Average Pace: 2:06.32/100m
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Interval swimming
1×300m
4×100m
8×50m
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 04/07/2009
- Time: 12:00:00
- Total Time: 00:24:32.00
- Calories: 256
- Distance: 1,200 m
- Average Pace: 2:02.87/100m
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Interval training
Mixed things up today. Did combinations of 2×200m, 4×100m and 4×50m. Wasn’t in the zone, but I’m still glad I got out.
Also took two days off to rest the knees. They were quite sore on Saturday.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 03/24/2009
- Time: 12:00:00
- Total Time: 00:21:43.00
- Calories: 227
- Distance: 1,000 m
- Average Pace: 2:10.43/100m
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Good swim
It’s kind of weird. I used to swim comfortably, but I wasn’t focussing too much on being streamlined. Now I’m focussing on streamlining, but I’ve almost ‘lost’ my previous form. Today was the first time the two actually came together. Not the most creative interval training set though; did 10×100m laps.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 03/17/2009
- Time: 12:00:00
- Total Time: 00:20:50.00
- Calories: 217
- Distance: 1,000 m
- Average Pace: 2:05/100m
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Swim - 0.4 hours - 03/09/2009
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 03/09/2009
- Time: 12:00:00
- Total Time: 00:22:33.00
- Calories: 177
- Distance: 1,000 m
- Average Pace: 2:15.34/100m
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